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title: Tain't bin proned inter no Brer B'ar fer ter kotch Brer Rabbit. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Tain't bin proned inter no Brer B'ar fer ter kotch Brer Rabbit. Who acts: Brer. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 3

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Tain't bin proned inter no Brer B'ar fer ter kotch Brer Rabbit.

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**Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** not bin, prone, kotch · **To what, where:** proned inter

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:27:3
# text = Tain't bin proned inter no Brer B'ar fer ter kotch Brer Rabbit.
1	Tai	tai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	proned	prone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	kotch	kotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bin** |  |  | proned inter |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inter=Theme |
| 2 | **prone** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kotch** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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